Awesome Movie

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Redwall is the first of three animated seasons (the other two being Mattimeo and Martin the Warrior) taken from the extraordinary twenty-two book series by Brian Jacques. I first saw this series when I was about 7 years old, and being a huge fan of the books I looked forward to seeing the animated version. It did not disappoint! The series is a faithful rendition of the book, and although it can be a bit fast-paced at times, does convey the important points of the story very well. The animation is good overall, and the voice acting excellent, especially Diego Matamoros as Cluny the Scourge. The music is also quite memorable, so much so that whenever I read one of the books from the series the opening theme of Redwall is stuck in my head.Overall I really enjoyed this series, and encourage anyone to watch it along with Mattimeo and Martin the Warrior! :)On a quick side note I'd also like to point out that there is a movie version of Redwall, but it's simply the 13 episode series edited to fit into 1 hour and 30 min. While not bad, if one is looking to see the animated series in it's entirety they'd be better off watching the TV show.

I haven't read the book, but I am still looking out for it. I saw all the episodes on YouTube and I was very impressed, as I am consistently with Nevlana. The animation is clean, the characters are convincing and there is humour thrown into the mix. I loved the fact that the plot evolved over a whole series, very clever. I don't have a favourite episode because I loved it all. I loved the drama and the depiction of violence and adventure that enhances the story like Redwall did. The best character in my opinion is Slagar, voiced magnificently by the ever versatile Tim Curry. In the second episode, although he is a real villain, you feel sorry for Slagar, when you see his disfigurement. Another great character was Basil, he was hilarious, and Baby Rollo is so cute. The other voice talents are entertaining too, along with the endearing subplots. The music is so beautiful, it really takes you back to the medieval times. Overall, I loved it! 10/10. Bethany Cox

I was thrilled when I first heard about this projects, since I love the books. After suffering through the three-year wait for it to finally reach the local PBS affiliate, I was completely disappointed in the result.The animation quality, for starters, was pathetic. The characters had no character. It was as bad as any cartoon-based-on-a-toy that disgraces Saturday afternoons on WB. I was hoping for something at least on par with 'Watership Down', which itself could have been much better.Too much of the book was left out, also. There weren't enough scenes in the enemy camp to give the viewer a feel for their motivations. They were just bad guys. And JUST bad guys. They hardly even seemed dangerous. The violence and threat were bowdlerized shamefully. Brian Jacques' books depict death and battle in an exciting way, without being too disturbing for young readers; surely we could have gotten a little more realism for the animated series. The sense of urgency to defeat the bad guys is lost.I didn't like the lack of Jacques' wonderful dialects among the various species, but I can grudgingly understand why it was necessary to homogenize them for spoken lines. The moles and sparrows would have been nearly unintelligible, to audiences who hadn't read the books.The Redwall books are such a wonderful literary series; they deserve better treatment in animation. Maybe we'll see a full-length, full-budget theatre movie, in the future.

I've read ALL of the great books of Redwall, but the series kinda falls short.Even though it is well-adapted, there are parts taken out that are nice to see. Even though the creatures DIE in the series, the violence is depicted so childishly that I shake my headSPOILERInstance, when Log A Log was hit with a spear, he was supposed to be hit in the neck, not the back. The Robed rats also are slashed, stabbed, whatnot, but not a speck of blood or even spit is to be found, their clothes don't even tear.NOTE: I know it's kinda sick f I notice this kinda thing, but the book is based on the horrors of war and it's effects, showing kids GRAPHIC violence isn't the best, but showing a red tear were they were slashed isn't bad. Also, Jacques books depict graphic scenes of violence, too.Other scenes such as Slagar's appearance was a dissapointment. When I found out Tim Curry was playing him, I was expecting fearsome, not a fox with eyes that look like happy Jap. Anime characters.END SPOILERThe animation most of the times is pretty solid, with the exception of a couple of stiff movements. The voice acting is great. All character sound proper. And the story sticks to the book pretty well. Despite it's problems, I can't help but watch the show.